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10 Best Movies Like Comic Book Confidential

If you loved Comic Book Confidential, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Ishtar

Ishtar

1987★ 4.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Comic Book Confidential for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels...

#2
Tokyo Olympiad

Tokyo Olympiad

1965★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Comic Book Confidential for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an ...

#3
Batman

Batman

1989★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Comic Book Confidential for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear int...

#4
American Beauty

American Beauty

1999★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Comic Book Confidential for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend....

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Comic Book Confidential for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Comic Book Confidential for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...